Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Epigraph v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Part I Introductory
7. 1 The theoretical absurd 2
8. 2 Antecedents to the absurd 33
9. Part II Growth of the absurd
10. 3 The twentieth century 66
11. 4 Around the absurd I 99
12. 5 Around the absurd II 126
13. Part III Special authors
14. 6 Daniil Kharms as minimalist-absurdist 158
15. 7 Franz Kafka 184
16. 8 Samuel Beckett’s vessels, voices and shades of the absurd 215
17. 9 Flann O’Brien and the purloined absurd 251
18. Part IV In conclusion
19. 10 Beyond the absurd? 280
20. Conclusion 309
21. Bibliography 314
22. Index 337